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Personal character didnt so impede their ability to govern. but, betsy, i want to ask you, we sort of glossed over the fight that hes having with "the wall street journal." its pretty fundamental. he seems to have said, i have a great -- he thinks that the twitter taunts constitute a relationship. i mean, he is like a 12-year-old commander in chief who thinks that -- i dont know what other kind of relationship they have unless hes suggesting there are talks we dont know about. >> right. its unde...

Mcconnell sometimes on policy, but i keep it on a level such that i think we have good relations and do i think he does a good job herding the cats that are up here, the disparate, different philosophies, right, left and middle? its a difficult job. he does a good job with it. >> very last question and this is also a yes or no question. would the country benefit from a republican presidential primary in 2020? >> i think no one can stop primaries from happening and there could well be a primary t...

2025 and most americans are -- congress needs to make sure these become perminent. but this question brings me to, if we can put up alexs top five. alex covers the house for us specifically. thats what this house looks at. and i think to franks point and, well, yes, its going to matter a lot in the senate, this question of hough the tax bill plays gets to the heart of your question which is can democrats win back the house? >> republicans really needed to pass a tax reform bill to get a win on t...

Of energy and activism in the democratic base. the question i think you have to ask is, is the sort of trump frustration and to some degree the trump dementia thats grasped the democratic grassroots enough to take back the house. whether or not nancy pelosi is leader doesnt really matter. >> and if they do take back the house, that brings into question a whole different discussion potentially about impeachment and the ramifications of the russia investigation which we havent even touched on. tha...

Doesnt mean i agree with him on everything. if we could end the afghan war, thats who i would support. i dont think thats going to be an alternative to president trump. so i like to accentuate the positive, the things i agree with him on. >> still not a yes or no answer but thank you. >> i think we need a primer. >> i think its a pretty good answer that we have no idea. you cant answer a question -- >> i asked if it would be good for the party. my interview with senator gillibrand whose insist...

Was all about -- i remember that in 2010. we the people matter. you krael this. and the only way to fire pelosi is to do what? you know, hire someone else to take the position of a democrat in congress. but that translated to state races as well. when you look at the state race. over 760-plus state house races across the country on this one theme. the key thing for me was not targeting barack obama. because barack obama was not really the root here. and i think that for the democrats, they need ...

Take that in hand. >> do you think thats possible in the new social media environment that were consumed with? >> i dont know if its possible, but of course its possible in some way. what it is is its necessary. >> im not going tounds any of it. and i think im watching what happens with deferred action for childhood arrivals. i think the daca question is one that is big on immigration and will come up in 2018. everyone thinks that its going to get done but didnt get done this year. so i think we...

Range chickens i talked about. >> welcome back to "kasie dc." that was the always quotable senator john kennedy. the chickens did come home for republicans and their tax plan. joining me for our new years eve party, some of the most important people i work with every day, capitol hill producer alex moe, frank thorpe and producer on the nbc news capitol hill team, mariana sotomayor. theyve all brought their top ten things to watch in 2018. for those of us who know you frank thorpe, well be unsurp...

You want to do the math? we are talking about. >> tucker: its a lot of people. i just wonder, i dont think there is any person who says the u.s. economy is crying out for more low skilled labor. its just not. you are from california. >> why dont we talk about the agriculture labor program where there is a need for low skilled workers. >> tucker: future is not for people with fifth grade education. its for engineers. these are not engineers. >> well, we are looking at somewhere north of 70,000, i...

Individuals who illegally entered as unaccompanied alien children. maybe they would fall under the daca program. by the way, only five of the 198, excuse me, only 56 the 200 were other than illegal aliens. so this is big news. he had a big press conference today. we are going to ask our next guest about this and the daca question. this is all coming to a head right now. we have 800,000 undocumented people brought here when they were young by their parents. and its one of the biggest issues facin...